Repository

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Preferred Citation Note

66M37 : [identification of item], Cooper-Phillips family papers, 1839-1911, bulk 1857-1866, University of Kentucky Special Collections.

Extent

0.45 Cubic feet

1 box

Creator

Cooper family.

Abstract

The Cooper-Phillips family papers document the family of Spencer Cooper, a Lexington, Kentucky clergyman and his daughter Annie's family with Theodore Phillips.

Biography/History

Spencer Cooper, a Methodist minister from Lexington, Kentucky, had two daughters Anna (Annie) and Virginia. In 1869, Annie married Theodore B. Phillips an accountant for W.S. Hume and Co., distillers of sour mash, bourdon, rye and malt whiskies. Virginia married Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe a lawyer and editor of the Lexington
Observer and Reporter and Kentucky Secretary of State under Governor James Fisher Robinson.

Scope and Content

The Cooper-Phillips family papers consist of letters, receipts, and business papers created by the family of Spencer Cooper, a Lexington, Kentucky clergyman. Included are several letters concerning the Civil War from Cooper's children, all of whom supported the Union. Letters dating from the 1880s and 1890s were created by the family of Annie Cooper and her husband, Theodore Phillips.

Subjects

Observer and reporter. (Lexington, Ky.)

W.S. Hume and Co..

Cooper family.

Phillips family.

Wickliffe family.

Kentucky--Genealogy.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Public opinion.

Cooper, Spencer, 1787-1839

Phillips, Annie, (Anna), Cooper

Phillips, Theodore B.

Wickliffe, Daniel Carmichael, 1810-1870

Wickliffe, Virginia, Cooper

Liquor industry--Kentucky--History--19th century.

User Restrictions

The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections.

Collection Inventory

I. Correspondence, 1839-1893

General, 1839-1868

Scope and Content Note:

This folder contains invitations and announcements received by the Cooper family, as well as correspondence in which the recipient or sender could not be clearly identified; some documents are undated.